Just an aside: So Lot is the ‘righteous’ hero who makes it away from ‘teh gheys’ in Sodom(y)… how does that work out for him?

Let’s see: wife turned to salt, and drunkenly raped, not by one, but by two of his daughters. I’m guessing that Lot wishes he stayed in Sodom for a little Fire and Brimstone. Far more respectable than daughter sex.